All signs point to Youngstown's Kelly Pavlik defending his WBC/WBO middleweight titles against former welterweight champion Paul Williams on Oct. 3 in Atlantic City, N.J. HBO will televise it.
According to Dan Rafael of ESPN.com, the deal is all but finalized and will be officially announced next week in New York.
Rafael quoted Pavlik's co-manager Cameron Dunkin as approving of the bout. Said Dunkin:
Paul Williams is a terrific fighter and so is my guy. It's a terrific match and it's good for boxing. It's a fight people are going to want to watch. Williams comes to fight and Kelly definitely comes to fight. It's going to be a really fun fight to watch with lots of lots of punches and lots of action.Pavlik (35-1, 31 KOs) will be making the third defense of his unified titles, which he won via dramatic seventh-round knockout against Jermain Taylor in September 2007.
Williams (37-1, 27 KOs), 28, a former two-time welterweight titlist who holds an interim junior middleweight belt, presents a much bigger challenge.
The fighters will split a purse of $3.75 million, with Pavlik receiving a minimum of $2 million.
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